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Rafael Edward "Ted" Cruz (born December 22, 1970) is an American politician and the junior U.S. Senator from Texas. He is a candidate for President of the United States in the 2016 presidential election. Cruz attended elementary and high school in and around Houston, graduated from Princeton University in 1992, and then from Harvard Law School in 1995. Between 1999 and 2003, Cruz was the director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, an associate deputy attorney general at the United States Department of Justice, and domestic policy advisor to President George W. Bush on the 2000 George W. Bush presidential campaign. He served as Solicitor General of Texas from 2003 to May 2008, after being appointed by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott. He was the first Hispanic, and the longest-serving solicitor general in Texas history. Cruz was also an adjunct professor of law at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, from 2004 to 2009. While there, he taught U.S. Supreme Court litigation. Cruz was the Republican nominee for the Senate seat vacated by fellow Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison. On July 31, 2012, he defeated Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst in the Republican primary runoff, 57%–43%. Cruz defeated former state Representative Paul Sadler in the general election on November 6, 2012. He won 56%–41% over Sadler. He was elected by Texas to the U.S. Senate in 2012 and is the first Hispanic American to serve as a U.S. senator representing Texas. He is the chairman of the United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight, Federal Rights and Agency Activities. He is also the chairman of the United States Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Space, Science and Competitiveness. Cruz is one of three Senators of Cuban descent. On November 14, 2012, Cruz was appointed vice-chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Cruz began campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination in March 2015. ==Early life and ancestry== Cruz was born on December 22, 1970,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=CRUZ, Rafael Edward (Ted) – Biographical Information )〕〔(U.S. Senator Ted Cruz ), ''Austin American-Statesman''〕 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada to parents Eleanor Elizabeth Darragh Wilson and Rafael Bienvenido Cruz.〔 At the time of his birth, Cruz' parents were working in the oil business as owners of a seismic-data processing firm for oil drilling.〔 Cruz's father was born in Cuba, and Ted's paternal grandfather was from the Canary Islands in Spain. Cruz's mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware, of three quarter Irish and one quarter Italian ancestry.〔https://infotomb.com/4ffm4.pdf〕〔(A Time for Truth: Reigniting the Promise of America By Ted Cruz. )〕 His father left Cuba in 1957 to attend the University of Texas at Austin, becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2005.〔(A Time for Truth: Reigniting the Promise of America By Ted Cruz. )〕 His mother earned an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Rice University in the 1950s.〔 On his father's side, Cruz had two older half-sisters, Miriam Ceferina Cruz and Roxana Lourdes Cruz. Miriam died of a prescription drug overdose on January 10, 2011. Roxana is a physician in Texas.〔(Ted Cruz’s Secret Weapon to Win the Right ), ''National Journal'', Andy Kroll, June 25, 2015. Retrieved 11 November 2015.〕〔 On his mother's side Cruz had a half-brother, Michael Wilson (1960 - 1965). Cruz learned of his deceased half brother from his mother during his teenage years. Cruz moved with his family to Texas in 1974.〔Larson, Leslie. ("Ted Cruz plans to renounce Canadian citizenship" ), New York Daily News (December 30, 2013).〕 When he was a child, Cruz's mother told him that she would have to make an affirmative act to claim Canadian citizenship for him, so his family assumed that he did not hold Canadian citizenship.〔 In August 2013, after the ''Dallas Morning News'' pointed out that Cruz had dual Canadian-American citizenship, he applied to formally renounce his Canadian citizenship and ceased being a citizen of Canada on May 14, 2014. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ted Cruz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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